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The Reservation Issue
Slide Show
• A lot of rage, a little Rang De
• At Ground Zero of the quota protests
• Doctors in arms

Columns
• The anti-quota stir is misguided


• The death of meritocracy
• How far will the student revolt go?
• Prime Minister, I've a question
• The Next Partition of India
• Are Brahmins the Dalits of today?
• The middle class deserves what it is getting
• Do our institutes connect with the real India?
• Reservations: The Economic Factor
• Maintain the integrity of Indian education
• Caste shouldn't overwrite merit
• Quota: A cure worse than the disease
• How reservations fracture Hindu society
• The dangers of reservation in IITs/IIMs
• Job reservation: What India Inc should do
• Education quotas are unfair
• Just how many OBCs are there?

Images
• Anti-reservation fire rages across India
• Quota protestors are cannon fodder
• Student fury at quotas

Interviews
• 'We can't build the nation with 19th century mindset'
• 'Middle class only bothers about itself'
• 'What more do the upper castes want?'

Specials
• Cost of new quotas: Rs 165 billion and counting
• What the quota panel told the government
• Evaluating Tamil Nadu's 69% quota system
• Terms of reference for Quota Committee
• Can this committee end the quota deadlock?
• 'No one wants to hear us'
• Leaders of anti-quota stir speak
• 'No need for quota at postgraduate level'
• Did Arjun Singh's quota gamble backfire?
May 30, 2006
• Centre calls in Army doctors
• BJP for expert panel on quota
• No controversy over quota issue in BJP: Rajnath
• BJP sharply divided over quota issue
• Quota: Doctors will continue strike
• Supreme Court warns striking doctors
May 29, 2006
• Protesting medicos should call off strike: SC
• BJP backs quota but wants merit protected
• Quota: Govt announces 13-member committee headed by Moily
• Caste-based quota is not the answer: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• Quota: JNU, IIT students on hunger strike
May 27, 2006
• Cuttack: Student attempts immolation
• Delhi: Quota protestor in immolation bid
• Lucknow: Striking doctors resume work
• Reservations: The other side of the story
• Quota: Striking doctors may knock SC's doors
May 26, 2006
• CPI-M blasts striking medicos
• Don't worry: PM to striking medicos
May 25, 2006
• Reservation to be implemented in 'one go': Arjun
• I think quota issue is settled: PM
• Medicos launch 'civil disobedience' campaign against quotas
May 24, 2006
• Quota: Kalam tries in vain to convince medicos
• Medicos call for "civil disobedience"
• Quota: Protestors attempt to halt interviews
May 23, 2006
• Government to go ahead with 27% reservation
• IMA splits over quota issue
• PMK demands ordinance to implement quota
May 22, 2006
• Quota impasse continues as talks fail
• Two members quit the Knowledge Commission
May 20, 2006
• Delhi: Army doctors on standby
• Have faith in us: PM to striking docs
• GoM submits report, docs soften stand
• Sidhu, Khera visit protesting doctors
• PM knew about quota proposal: Arjun
• Quota protests: Massive rally marks Day 7
May 19, 2006
• Bihar: Pro-quota rally turns violent
• Quota: Doctors may intensify strike
• No reconsideration for OBC quota, says Lalu
• Quota: A solution in sight
May 18, 2006
• General seats will remain the same: Govt
• Govt committee not enough: Quota protestors
May 17, 2006
• OBC quota: Govt sets up 4-member committee
• Pro-reservation activist held in Delhi
May 16, 2006
• No going back on 27% quota for OBCs: Arjun
• Doctors in 14 Delhi hospitals withdraw strike
May 15, 2006
• Striking doctors attend to patients
• Quota: Government assures agitating doctors
• It's official: Govt mulling quota
• Govt plans action against striking doctors
• Doctors' strike hits health services
• Upper castes get more top jobs? No!
May 14, 2006
• Arjun rejects re-think on quota
• Anti-quota protests spread
May 13, 2006
• Medicos' stir intensifies, patients face hardship
• New Delhi: Resident doctors join strike
May 12, 2006
• Medical body pitches in for quota protestors
• Post polls Medical students hit the road again
May 11, 2006
• Maharashtra okays quota in pvt colleges; NCP, Cong hail decision
May 09, 2006
• Knowledge panel for status quo on quota
• Schooling is an effective job quota
May 08, 2006
• Quota: Just how many OBCs are there?
May 06, 2006
• India Inc vehemently opposes quota
May 05, 2006
• SC vacates order on quota in medical courses
May 04, 2006
• Agitating students meet President Kalam
• Orissa medicos protest quotas, burn Arjun's effigy
May 02, 2006
• Medical students protest against quotas
• Govt not to impose quotas on India Inc
Archieves:
April 2006
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